Chap at work spent £4,600 on a laptop!
OMFG!
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You WHAT?
I just got a really nice Dell for £200 off a mate. It's only a year old and was nearly £1000 new... 🙂
so, is a really expensive laptop really really small, or really really big?
Chap at work spent £4,600 on a laptop!
I bet he thinks you can get a decent MTB for £99. Horses for courses.
Andy
Please advise what laptop?
...and people say Macs are pricey. The most you can get a 17" MBP up to is £3,459.00 incl. VAT.
2.66GHz Intel Core i7
8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2X4GB
512GB Solid State Drive
SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
MacBook Pro 17-inch Hi-Resolution Antiglare Widescreen Display
.....Dell cannot match either.
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I just got a really nice Dell for £200 off a mate
You can't have done . There's no such thing as a 'really nice Dell'.
£4600 sounds like a lot of money, but I'm imagining it's a pro-spec machine maxed out with RAM, maybe SSD too? Did it come with any particular software? I knew a bloke who had a £3500 lappy, but that was for sophisticated oil/gas industrial research type stuff, so was a bit more powerful than your average consumer job. The software on it cost thousands too. And stuff he plugged into it was silly money, so I suppose it was a relatively cheap bit of kit for him.
He did play an awful lot of WOW on it if I remember...
You can't have done . There's no such thing as a 'really nice Dell'.
My work Dell (XT2) is actually pretty good. Light, battery lasts a good amount of time. That said, the touchscreen is bollocks but I never use it so who cares.
Even I would've bought a mac if I had that kind of money to waste! 😮
I bet he thinks you can get a decent MTB for £99. Horses for courses.
Ah yes, I knew someone'd say that. It's far more than spending £3k on a bike. I reckon a £3k bike is equivalent to a £2k laptop. He's spending double what anyone else would consider top whack, so it's like one of those roadie weirdos that spend £7k on a TdF replica bike for weekend use.
I think Alienware might be the one - something to do with aliens anyway. And he did say he was going to be using it for WoW, yes.
I just can't imagine having almost £5k, spending it and it all going, being replaced with.. a laptop. I mean really.
Horses for courses.
Dandyhorses for trailcentres 8)
Considering you can spend getting on for [url= http://store.apple.com/uk/configure/MB535B/A?mco=MTM4MTI3NzE ]£14000[/url] on a souped up Mac Pro set up, and probably loads more on a custom PC, £4600 on a high-spec lappy probably isn't that bad by comparison. Computers can cost loads, if you want to do a bit more than surf the web and look at pictures of naked ladies. The computers most of us have are the equivalent of cheap bikes, unless you've got a decent spec workstation. Don't think that your £300 Tesco laptop is anywhere near what some high-end professional machines are. It's not. Nowhere close.
Something to do with aliens anyway
Nah, I am sure on Independence Day Will Smith hooked up just a regular Mac to the alien computers without any special niche hardware or software.
You can spend £16,173.90 on a MAC 😮
probably loads more on a custom PC
They can be expensive but for most people even doing intensive stuff, >£1000 is all you need to spend. I'm rendering 3d graphics and doing a load of video stuff on my £650 "custom" pc and can't really see how I'd benefit from more ram, "better" processor or a slightly better graphics card as it handles it so well. Good for games as well.
I know it seems mad, but some folk need super-powerful set ups, which cost loads. A friend of mine works in a science lab where they have custom build computer systems, which do all sorts of really complex things, like creating virtual models of protein growth and stuff I can't begin to understand. These systems replicate what can be done in a lab, in a virtual sense, but at thousands of times the speed of the real thing, meaning studies can take place in hours or days, rather than months or years. And loads of other applications. These aren't off the peg machines, and cost incredible sums of money. They can be connected to all manner of very high-tech equipment. A £600 PC World special just an't gonna cut it.
That said, many folk will buy stuff way more powerful than they actually need. Bit like how some folk will spend £4000+ on a bike to mince about on. You get the drift.
Dandyhorses for trailcentres
SpokesShirts - you know what to do.
Anyway, 4,600 quid for a laptop? Is it solid gold? Is it a WOPR?
Right, £000s for a professional workstation, fine, I get that. Not got a problem with that.
But he's only gaming on it.
But he's only gaming on it.
Gaming is one of the most intensive things you can do with a computer, particularly a laptop.
If he's addicted to the WoW crack, he's going to be getting A LOT of use out of it as he feeds his habit, so it's fair enough. If I was riding everyday, like a pro circuit road rider, I'd probably want a 5k road bike and he's probably going to be spending as much, if not more, time on that machine as those guys do on the bike.
It's one of the most intensive NON-WORK related things you can do, yes. Still really very little point in doubling your spend just for a few more FPS.
I mean £2,300 is still a very nice laptop, and plenty for gaming.
Probably bought it to play Starcraft 2. Apparently it [url= http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/07/29/why-i-want-to-be-a-pc-gamer-but-can’t/ ]needs alot of oomph.[/url]
....still. I would rather have got a Xbox360, big tv, bike, car and holiday for that 🙂
Jamie - I really would call what that guy describes 'alot of oomph'.
More like
- you must have a 3d accelerator to play this game
I think he should stick to consoles.
In 1997 I bought a top-spec Toshiba at work for nearly £4k, pre-Pentium too... Remember the ones with the attached 'tracker ball'?
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Four and a half grand on a laptop for gaming, well, ok, if you've got the money then why not. But to play World of Warcraft? It's a six year old game, it'll run on a Commodore 64 practically.